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The Voyage

But the real travelers are those who leave for leaving’s sake; their hearts are light…

The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
And…

[Sung on the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead at Magnolia Cemetery,…

She stood before a chosen few,
With modest air and eyes of blue;
A gentle…

Master of human destinies am I.
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities…

It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon’s despair,
Nor the snow’s…

DARK-EYED,
O woman of my dreams,
Ivory sandaled,
There is none like thee among the…

This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt…

Hush ye! Hush ye! My babe is sleeping.
Hush, ye winds, that are full of…

What do I owe to you
Who loved me deep and long?
You never gave…